“Cyrus‘ culture emphasizes both technical mastery and workplace collegiality. As a Cyrus developer, I‘m inspired every day by my team.” - David A. Black, Agile Team Lead, Author, “The Well-Grounded Rubyist”

“Cyrus has been invaluable to us… Through close collaboration with Cyrus our team has learned (and continues to learn) a great deal about delivering quality code and Agile best practices.” - Brian Madden, Director of IT at Boston Capital

“We chose Cyrus because they got things done. Everyone else was just talk.” - Janet Kasdan, Technology Director, CondéNast Technology, CondéNast Publications

“Our clients are often surprised and grateful when they experience the high caliber of our teams and our results-oriented approach.” - Paul Infield-Harm, Director of Product Development

“Our developers continuously improve themselves, their teams and the craft of software development.” - Rex Madden, Managing Director/COO

“Cyrus has the smartest, most motivated people I‘ve ever worked with.” - Daniel Wellman, Director of Technology

“If you're in NYC and need enterprise web development services, talk to @cyrusinnovation. They 'get' Agile at a level well above average.” - James Shore, Author of "The Art of Agile Development", via Twitter

“Lots of places have people who want to write great code, and many places have work-life balance, but you don‘t hear about many places that have both.” - Laura Dean, Agile Team Lead

“Before working with Cyrus, we spent a lot of time fighting code fires. Now…that has gone away. We are now approaching our software projects in a proactive way. We can plan ahead and rely on those plans.” - Jerry Horowitz, Director Youth Tackle Football, NFL

“The thing that makes working at Cyrus great is its people. They are real people you can talk to and they‘re all interested in your growth.” - Steven Nunez, Junior Developer

“Cyrus not only helps you define professional aspirations, but reach them. At Cyrus, developers are challenged but they are also recognized and rewarded.” - Jason Reid, Director of Strategic Planning

“Working with Cyrus has been great. We‘ve made progress in a matter of weeks - much faster than expected. If you‘re interested in adopting Agile, I‘d highly recommend them.” - Vann Walke, Executive Vice President, Skarven Enterprises

“We have an honest, can-do attitude that clients recognize and value. They know we are going to deliver.” - Debbie Madden, Executive Vice President

“What I really like about Cyrus is that they help you see risks and potential delays right at the beginning of the project when you still have time to do something about it.” - Mark Freidberg, VP Operations, Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions

“Nothing energizes like spending an entire day each quarter with colleagues you hold in high esteem, in a company-wide open space that actually leads to significant, organizational changes.” - Paul Blair, Agile Team Lead

“We need a trusted, reliable source of trained and experienced developers who can step in on short notice and fit our collaborative culture [and] our expectations for quality….Cyrus provides that for me.” - Ken Judy, VP, Engineering Simon & Schuster

“As an Agile shop, we are continually learning and iterating in our own environment. If there is a faster, more efficient, more productive way of developing, we are going to find it.” - Oliver Stewart, Agile Team Lead

“Cyrus cares about its employees - from where they work to how they live.” - Aldric Giacomoni, Agile Developer

“The Agile training we received from Cyrus Innovation was instrumental to introducing scrum to the ATG organization.” - Kristin Moore, Director, Program Management, ATG

Life at Cyrus

Two Weeks in the Life of a Cyrus Applicant

That‘s all it takes — about two weeks — for us to figure out if we are a perfect fit for each other. Cyrus understands how valuable your time is even before you become an employee. Once you apply to Cyrus, it only takes about two weeks from start to finish to get an offer letter from us. Let‘s get started…

cyrus candids 19Day 1: Send us an email. Tell us a bit about yourself. Send a resume. Link to Github and/or LinkedIn if you‘d like.

Day 2: Chat with us for 30 minutes over the phone. Tell us about yourself. Learn about Cyrus. If we think you‘re a fit, we‘ll email you our code exercise.

Day 2 - 7: You work on the code exercise at your own pace. Maybe you take some time on Sunday to tidy it up and send your solution back to us.

Day 9: We have reviewed your solution and love what we see. You approach a coding problem in a logical, analytical way. It‘s clear you‘ve put your best foot forward. We invite you on-site to meet our team.

Day 12: You come on-site. Arriving at 9:30, you grab a cup of coffee and the day begins. Throughout the day, you get to meet many Cyrus folks, including developers and non-devs. We chat, we go to lunch. Most importantly, you pair-program with us. You see first-hand what it would be like to work here.

Day 12: Same day. We like you, you like us. We make you an offer on the spot.

 

cyrus candids 21A Day in the Life of a Cyrus Employee

Once you‘ve joined Cyrus, you‘ll see that we take our coding seriously, but we don‘t take ourselves seriously. Our team members are expected to be self-motivated, passionate and personally accountable. We trust you to get the job done and our clients trust us to deliver the best code in the industry.

 

A Typical Day

9:30 am: Coffee time. Columbian Supremo from Porto Rico is our favorite.

9:40 am: Daily Standup for my project team. 15 minutes. We all stand. We share what we each did yesterday, what we plan to do today, what are our impediments.

10:00 am: Heading to my Team Room to code (Open space, pairing stations, visible work, collaboration)

10:25 am: Pomodoro break time. Every 25 minutes. Keeps us fresh. (Test drive the toy helicopters we keep around the office. Attempt to beat my in-flight record.)

10:30 am: Back to pair-programming

12:30 pm: Lunch time. Giant sandwich or Underground today, will decide soon.

1:30 pm: Client Call (Our on-site customer walks us through the features they asked for and we plan the next iteration together.

cyrus candids 92:30 pm: Story breakdown

3:00 pm: Back to pair-programming

3:30 pm: If it‘s Friday, time for our Kaizen. (Review the week‘s work and everyone shares beers, issues and ideas.)

6:00 pm: Game Night (Every few weeks at our office. A handful of us grab dinner and play strategy board games. Tonight I plan to beat my colleagues at Settlers of Catan)